The College News
Volume IV. No. 11
BRYN MAWR, PA., DECEMBER 19. 1917
Price 5 Cents
MAJOR BEITH AND LIEUTENANT
MacQUARRIE ENTERTAINED
BY HISTORY CLUB f�V
Major Ian Hay Heith and Lieutenant
MacQuarrie were the guests of honor at
a History Club reception In Pembroke
East after Major Belth's lecture Satur-
day night. They dined in Pembroke with
members of the History Club before the
lecture.
The guests at dinner passed their place
cards to the head of the table to receive
the signatures of the two officers and
during the reception Major Beith was
beset by owners of his books with re-
quests to autograph them at a dollar a
copy for the benefit of the Students
Friendship Fund.
P. Turle, '18. president of the Club,
owns a copy of Lieutenant MacQuarrie's
How to Live at the Front, with the
author's autograph and the inscription,
"In memory of the battle of Bryn Mawr."
PLAN THREE PERFORMANCES OF
VARSITY PLAY IN CLOISTERS
Undergraduate Committee to Confer
On Oral Classes With the Faculty
A rough estimate placing the probable
proceeds of a Varsity play at $1500, was
given by M. Martin '19 in a report of the
Varsity Dramatics Committee before the
Undergraduate Association, Monday. Any
dramatics given would be in the cloisters,
where the cost of production, according
to Miss Martin, would be about $1200 and
the receipts $900 an evening. By having
three performances a balance could be
netted for Bryn Mawr war work.
Plays suggested by the committee were
Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, Josephine
Peabody's Piper, and Dunsany's God* of
the Mountains. Action on the matter was
postponed till definite figures could be
secured on the cost of coaching.
The question of Oral Classes, it was
Toted, should be discussed with the Fac-
ulty through the Conference Committee
of the Undergraduate Association. G.
Woodbury, president of the Class of 1919,
told of the conference of the Junior and
Sophomore committees with President
Thomas. Oral classes could not be abol-
ished entirely, she reported, nor could the
college afford to give them free.
An assessment of ten cents a head was
decided upon by the Association to meet
current expenses.
COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
DISBANDS, HAVING ACHIEVED END
B. M. Club Represented by M. Martin
A vote to disband followed a recom-
mendation from President Thomas, presi-
dent of the College Women's Equal Suf-
frage Association, at a meeting of the as-
sociation last Saturday In Washington.
The Bryn Mawr Suffrage Club was repre-
sented by M. Martin '19. who was also a
delegate (from Massachusetts) to the
National Convention.
President Thomas pointed out that the
College Equal Suffrage Association had
accomplished its mission of making suf-
frage for college women respectable, and
offered to assume its debts, amounting to
a little over $7000. College suffrage clubs
will henceforth be affiliated with the na-
tional organization, either directly or
through their States.
At a college luncheon Saturday after-
noon in the ballroom of the New Ibbet
House. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was the
guest of honor, and President Thomas.
(Continued on page 5. column 4.)
MAJOR BEITH'S OPTIMISM
MORE SERIOUS THAN
LAST YEAR
British Hold Nearly Half German
Army Massed on Belgian Front
More soldier than novelist in bis ad-
dress on the "Progress of the War,"
Saturday evening in the gymnasium,
Major Beith (Ian Hay) discussed less the
human side of trench warfare than the
strategic aspect of the present situation.
Miltary snapshots, some of which Major
Beith himself took, were shown. The
lecture, under the auspices of the His-
tory Club, netted over $600 for English
war charities.
"If we can merely hold our own for the
next three months and allow the enemy
to waste his troops on the western front,
it will be one of the greatest victories of
the war," declared Major Beith with quiet
optimism. "The withdrawal of German
troops from Russia for concentration
against the British in Belgium is mani-
festly to the Allies' advantage, as on the
western front the facilities for their de-
struction are much greater than on the
eastern front. � � � The recent drives
against General Byng have been attended
with enormous German losses which will
Increase with the winter snows.
"The capture of a narrow strip of land
along the North Sea would mean access
to Ostend and Zeebrugge, the German
submarine bases. The enemy, realizing
this, has massed his troops here 5,000
men to the mile (as against 300 in Al-
sace), so that the British, on less than a
fourth of the entire line, are holding out
against 48 per cent, of the German army."
Weather Pro-German
The weather last summer Major Beith
characterized as consistently pro-German.
With a very little luck, the speaker de-
clared, and a little less mud, General Haig
would easily have been in Ostend. Never-
theless, he went on, the spirit of the men
is undaunted. They are back on the his-
toric ground where, in the first battle of
Ypres, cooks, wagon drivers, a ragged
line of odds and ends, flung themselves
down In front of their artillery and
smashed the Prussian Guard. If it had
not been for this small expeditionary
forte who went out and sacrificed them-
selves to give the old country behind it
time to wake up, the Germans would
have got to the channel ports on the
North Sea, Major Beith pointed out. As
it is, England has transported four mil-
lion troops over the channel without the
loss of a single life.
Major Beith described the battle of the
Somme as the set ting-in of the ebbtide
of the German invasion, just as the battle
of the Marne represented the high-water
mark. Whether the amateur armies
raised and equipped in less than two
years, were a match for the grim, ma-
chine-made, Iron-bound army waiting for
them on the "ridge over there," which
had been waiting for forty years, was the
question they had to answer, he said. "It
is the same question which, at no very far
away time, your troops will have to an-
swer."
Lantern slides of the battlefield showed
the shell holes which will probably pre-
vent It from being ploughed for a genera
tion. A photograph which Major Beith
had taken from an underground trench
showed a section of the Hlndenberg line,
which the British Tommy, ignorantly
thinking it a "common ordinary" line, had
attacked and captured.
ntinued on page 6, column J.)
CHRI3TMAS PARTIES CELEBRATE
ADVENT OF HOLIDAY 8EASON
Merion and Pembroke Join Forces
The combination of Merion and Pem-
broke merrymakers last night in a joint
party in the Pembroke dining-room was a
new departure in the celebration of the
annual Christmas parties.
The Merion-Pembroke dance, managed
by Z. Boynton, '20, included a freshman
stunt and a dance competition, judged by
a committee chosen from the four classes.
1921 also gave a stunt at the Denbigh
party.
In Radnor the festivities reached their
climax at dinner with the bringing in of
the Yule Log and the singing of Yule Log
and Boar's Head choruses. Speeches en-
livened the dinner, H. Zinsser, "20. being
toast mistress, and G. Steele, '20, song
mistress.
In Rockefeller M. Nearing, '09, was
toast mistress, and C. Hayman, '19, L.
Williamson, '20, and L. Ward, '21, formed
the committee on stunts and speeches.
POSITIONS OPEN IN ELECTRIC
COMPANY TO BE EXPLAINED
Series of Vocational Talks�Plan of
Registration Department
The first of a possible series of voca-
tional lectures will be given by Mr. Her-
bert Eglin, second vice-president of the
Philadelphia Electric Company, who will
speak here In January under the aus-
pices of the Registration Department
of the War Council. His subject will be
positions in the Philadelphia Electric
Company which are open to college
women, graduates and upper classmen,
both trained and untrained.
The positions offered were formerly
held by men now In the government serv-
ice and constitute whole-time work. Sci-
entific training is required for some:
others involve clerical work for which
a general training is sufficient. Positions
for next summer are open.
Mr. Eglin was secured through the
War Council as the result of a letter
written by him to Dr. Barnes, Professor
of Physics, telling of the opportunities
in his company for college women.
In co-operation with Dean Taft, head
of the Appointment Bureau, the Regis-
tration Department hopes to secure other
speakers on the specific positions now
actually open to women.
SERVICE CORPS' UNANIMOUS
DECISION OF MASS MEETING
AND WAR C0NNC1L
Alumnae Committee Assures Coopera-
tion With The American Red Cross
A service corps of Bryn Mawr workers
abroad, instead of n reconstruction unit
or a Y. M. ('. A. hut, was the unanimous
ve>dlct of the mass meetinK last Mon.lay
evening. $10,000 before June was the
goal set for the college and $20,000 was
unofficially decided for the alumnre. The
same decision was previously reached by
tin- War Council.
The Service Corps Is the object of the
chief drive of the year and no other can-
vass for War Relief will he undertaken
in the second semester.
Sixty-two B. M. workers. fortf-Objhl of
them in France, are now abroad, reported
M. Reilly '01, chnirmun of the Alumna?
War Work Committee. Cooperation be-
tween Bryn Mawr work and the Red
Cross was assured to this committee in
Interviews with Washington officials.
A patriotic farm n. ;ir the college Is al-
most certain, said H. Khlers o.t, director
of Food Production. No workers will be
taken for less than six weeks.
MONUMENT FOR THE FIRST THREE
AMERICANS KILLED IN FRANCE
A monument to the first three soldiers
of the United States army who have
fallen in France is being erected by the
people of the district where the men lie,
according to a Paris despatch in the New
York Times.
The three men are buried in a little
cemetery In Lorraine territory, not far
from Nancy. A small model of the monu-
ment Is to be sent by the prefect of the
communes of Mciirthc and Moselle, M.
Mirman, to Ambassador Sharpe and
another to President Wilson.
$2667 TOTAL FRIENDSHIP FUND
PEMBROKE WEST LEADS
With $1167.40 collected since Decem-
ber 3d, the Students' Friendship War
Fund closed Saturday, after a twelve-
day campaign, with a total of $2067.40, If
the $1500 collected after Mr. Taft's lec-
ture before Thanksgiving is included.
Pembroke West leads with tftOJM la
the hall subscriptions, with Rockefeller
a close second, totaling $245.75. 1918
netted $82.40 for the Fund by the two
performances of the Senior reception
skit. Copies of Major Keith's books au-
tographed last Saturday after the lec-
ture for $1 each brought In $14.
The contributors were:
Rockefeller .....................$245.75
Pembroke West ................. 290.50
Pembroke East ................. 133.50
Denbigh ........................ 113.50
Merion ......................... 184.00
Radnor ......................... 82.75
Llysifran ....................... 45.00
Faculty ......................... 46.00
1918 ............................ 82.40
Autographs .............. ...... 14.00
Miscellaneous ................... 30.00
BRYN MAWR 8PEED FRIGHTENS ------------
MANAGER OF WOOLEN MILLS Total ......................$1167.40
The promptness with which a second
order for low-priced wool went In from
the workroom to the mills brought a>
quick reply. No more wool will be i On account of Hm Christmas vacation
shipped to Bryn Mawr. was the gist of no News will be published until a week
It. unless the mills are assured that it la , after college opens. The next number
not being sold for profit. | will come out January 10. 1918.
CHOIR TOURS OUR CAMPUS SINGING
CHRI8TMA8 CAROLS
The choir, augmented by the addition
of eight new voices, made its customary
tour of the campus last night, singing
Christmas carols. "Listen, Lordings,
Unto Me," was a new song in the usual
repertoire.
Starting at the Deanery, proceeding
through Rockefeller and Pen-y-groes,
along Faculty Row to Low Buildings, and
then through the Halls, the choir arrived
a little aften ten at the Model School,
where Its singing could be heard from
the Inn and the Infirmary.
NO "NEWS" FOR THREE WEEKS